36-507: Brompton , sometimes called Old Brompton , survives in name as a ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex . It lay southeast of the village of Kensington , abutting the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster at the hamlet of Knightsbridge to
72-500: A 1 ⁄ 8 SW to WSW radial sector focused on what was for many centuries a geographical point, a bridge, " Knights Bridge (Knightsbridge) ", from which Brompton was always narrowly omitted. That point later became a Crossroads for arterial roads, known as " Scotch Corner ". Boundaries can be traced in the street network with a few small gaps, clockwise from the north: West Brompton became overshadowed by Earls Court which overtook its land, but it extended more broadly than
108-528: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using
144-452: A manor house, and lay to the north. Chelsea was to the south. Its fragmented existence is commemorated chiefly through four of the places listed below. The first recorded mention of Brompton dates back to 1292. It was a rural area which subsequently attracted attention as the story of developments centred along a turnpike road that ran south westward from London through Knightsbridge Green and horticultural Brompton to Little Chelsea and
180-609: A maximum of three extra-parochial areas within, namely: Westminster St Margaret and St John was a local act parish and so remained a single unit for administration of the New Poor Law . Following the Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 ( 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6), it joined with St George Hanover Square for this purpose in 1870 as the St George's Union. The population history is typical for a central district of London, growing until
216-595: A vestry and within the City and Liberty of Westminster . Before 1542 the parish included territory between the church of St Clement Danes and the Palace of Westminster , that became part of the parish of St Martin in the Fields . The Commission for Building Fifty New Churches was set up to build new churches for populous parishes in the London area and Church of St John the Evangelist
252-1016: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on
288-523: Is suggested by the above sectors, to have a long border along the hidden Counter's Creek , (today's West London line ), with the Hammersmith and Fulham borough boundary, then back along the Cromwell Road / Queen's Gate through Gloucester Road . The rest of "South Kensington" and Kensington proper, including the first manor, centred on what became a royal palace ( Kensington Palace ), instead of simply
324-659: The pop-up retail currently occupying the John Young condemned buildings, in the vicinity of Lillie Bridge (Fulham) and West Brompton station . Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils,
360-517: The City of Westminster , again due to the tube network it is commonly marked on maps as part of "Knightsbridge" district. Brompton (or very rarely New Brompton ) had a jagged north-eastern limit owing to the medieval permanent assignation of Kensington Gore to Westminster . According to the Church of England this has been simplified so that a three-church parish Holy Trinity Brompton – St Paul's, Onslow Square and St Augustine's, Queen's Gate takes up
396-595: The College of Arms created for it a new coat of arms which included its Brompton roots. The crest contains a broom bush which represents the link between the two former boroughs' connection with the 'Brompton' ward. The area is now part of the Chelsea constituency . In medieval times Brompton was famous for its gorse fields. The name was a corruption of 'broom tun', meaning a gorse farm. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has confined its "Brompton Conservation Area" to but
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#1732854674448432-458: The Local Government (Boundaries) (NI) Order 1972 (No. 131) and DEAs were first created by the Local Government (District Electoral Areas) Regulations 1973 (No.94) St Margaret Westminster St Margaret was an ancient parish in the City and Liberty of Westminster and the county of Middlesex . It included the core of modern Westminster , including the Palace of Westminster and
468-457: The electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in
504-637: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by
540-489: The Bell and Horns, an inn sited opposite the [Brompton Oratory], where Empire House now stands. After the frontages of Brompton Road nearer London had been built up, the original nucleus of Brompton became known as Old Brompton and Brompton Lane as Old Brompton Road—which name survives today except in the short stretch east of South Kensington Station, where its line is represented by Thurloe Place. Before 1863 therefore, 'Brompton Road'
576-676: The Evangelist No. 1 (9), St John the Evangelist No. 2 (15) and St John the Evangelist No. 3 (12). The local authority was renamed as the St Margaret and St John Combined Vestry in 1887. In 1889 the parishes became part of the County of London . The united parishes unsuccessfully petitioned for incorporation as a municipal borough on 19 January 1897. In 1900 they became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster . St Margaret and St John
612-462: The United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as the Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use
648-514: The ancient parish of Fulham on the banks of the Thames and thence over Putney Bridge onto the County of Surrey . Brompton Park Nurseries were founded in 1681 by four leading gardeners, led by George London . In the late 18th century, Carey's map of 1787 shows Brompton as a collection of market gardens. A hundred years later, Charles Dickens Jr. (eldest child of Charles Dickens ) wrote in his 1879 book Dickens's Dictionary of London that "Brompton
684-518: The area around, but not including Westminster Abbey . It was divided into St Margaret's and St John's in 1727, to coincide with the building of the Church of St John the Evangelist , constructed by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in Smith Square to meet the demands of the growing population, but there continued to be a single vestry for the parishes of St Margaret and St John . This
720-728: The area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works . St Margaret elected 30 members the district board and St John elected 27 members. Under the Metropolis Management Act 1855 any parish that exceeded 2,000 ratepayers was to be divided into wards; as such the parishes of both St Margaret Westminster and St John the Evangelist within the Westminster District Boards of Works were divided into three wards each (electing vestrymen ): St Margaret No. 1 (12), St Margaret No. 2 (9), St Margaret No. 3 (15), St John
756-407: The eastern end of this highway was known indiscriminately as the road to Fulham or the road to Brompton. The name 'Brompton', now used loosely, then applied most precisely to the settlement which lay westwards of what is now South Kensington Station, just off the turnpike road along the lane to Earl's Court. This lane, generally called Brompton Lane or Bell and Horns Lane, diverged from the main road at
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#1732854674448792-428: The names of stops during accelerated urbanisation, but lacking any cogent reference to local history and usage or distinctions from neighbouring settlements. Brompton has been home to many writers, actors and intellectuals. The Survey of London gives a long list. Its name survives formally to this day, only just, in the shared reference to two of the council's electoral wards called, "Brompton" and "Hans Town". Where
828-645: The northeast, with Little Chelsea to the south. It was bisected by the Fulham Turnpike , the main road westward out of London to the ancient parish of Fulham and on to Putney and Surrey . It saw its first parish church, Holy Trinity Brompton , only in 1829. Today the village has been comprehensively eclipsed by segmentation due principally to railway development culminating in London Underground lines, and its imposition of station names, including Knightsbridge , South Kensington and Gloucester Road as
864-431: The old turnpike highway ( Fulham Road ) meets today's Thurloe Place and becomes Brompton Road is sometimes called Brompton Cross . The old village of Brompton carried on straddling the secondary Brompton Lane, later Old Brompton Road , for the whole of its length. In modern terms Old Brompton centred on today's South Kensington tube station , Gloucester Road tube station and their contiguous streets, and continued all
900-466: The other hand, which had opened 1868, was originally called "Gloucester Road, Brompton", but for simplicity dropped the Brompton from its name. Thus, Brompton ceased to be a place or destination. A nod to Brompton resurfaced in 1866 with Sir John Fowler 's "station in the middle of fields", West Brompton station . In 1965 when the historic boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea merged to form one authority,
936-457: The parish fronted the River Thames to the east. St Margaret's was north of St John's. The parish of St Margaret had a detached part of similar size to its west, by the allegiance of a medieval manor, commonly named Kensington Gore and including the northwest of what is today considered Knightsbridge and Kensington Palace . In times of monasticism and monarchicism, the geographic extent had
972-487: The same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and
1008-572: The small northern part of the historical village of Brompton. the rest of it is partitioned among several other neighbouring conservation areas. Brompton and Old Brompton are deemed de facto obsolete names by the Tube and postal systems : Developers of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre , Lillie Bridge Depot and extant Victorian residential streets at West Brompton have given birth to an entity called, "West Brompton Crossing" to refer to
1044-435: The term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas, the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly
1080-480: The way to West Brompton station , between Earl's Court and Thames -side Chelsea . The historian F.H.W. Sheppard has summarised it thus: "there was always much traffic on the old turnpike road, which linked London not only with Little Chelsea and Fulham but also (via Putney Bridge) with parts of Surrey as well, and which from 1726 to 1826 was maintained by the Kensington Turnpike Trustees. Anciently,
1116-547: Was abolished as a civil parish in 1922. The parish vestry was the first in London to adopt the Public Libraries Act 1855 . It held a public meeting in 1856, achieved the required two thirds in favour of providing a library and appointed a librarian the same year. The Westminster Public Library on Great Smith Street opened in 1857. In 1858 a further library was opened in Trevor Square , Knightsbridge . The main part of
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1152-405: Was at one time almost exclusively the artists' quarter and is still largely frequented by the votaries of the brush and chisel, though of late years Belgravia has been encroaching upon its boundaries, and Belgravian rents are stealing westward." The village gained its first church in 1829, Holy Trinity Brompton , rapidly incepted a parish. The gradual fragmentation and overshadowing of Brompton
1188-464: Was completed in 1728. To coincide with this, a new parish of St John the Evangelist for civil and ecclesiastical purposes was split off from St Margaret in 1727. Despite the split, the two parishes continued to be governed by a single vestry and were commonly known as Westminster St Margaret and St John. The two parishes were grouped into the Westminster District in 1855 when they came within
1224-458: Was in general an unofficial term, usually to be construed as meaning the part of the Fulham turnpike road connecting Knightsbridge with Brompton Lane and thus with Old Brompton." Brompton's northern neighbours were the hamlets of Kensington Gore , dated but not dead in use, and Knight's bridge , a crossing over the culverted river Westbourne . As to its old eastern half its administration remains in
1260-632: Was probably due to two factors: the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the rapid institutional developments in the area, such as museums and colleges; and the arrival of railway transport. The station built in 1868 on the Metropolitan and District Railways to serve the attendant crowds was named South Kensington , not "Brompton". A " Brompton Road station " opened in 1906 for the new Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway ; lack of passengers forced it to close in 1934. Gloucester Road tube station on
1296-529: Was reformed in 1855 by the Metropolis Management Act, and the two parishes formed the Westminster District until 1887. St Margaret and St John became part of the County of London in 1889. The vestry was abolished in 1900, to be replaced by Westminster City Council , but St Margaret and St John continued to have a nominal existence until 1922. St Margaret was an ancient parish, governed by
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